In 1863, a young aspiring journalist named Samuel Langhorne Clemens stayed in this hotel on his way from San Francisco, CA to Virginia City, NV.
Here he heard a yarn about a notorious gambler who lost $40 to a con artist in a frog jumping competition.
The story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was first published in New York in 1865.
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| Not only the young journalist who later changed his name to Mark Twain gained fame through the story. It also put the tiny mining town Angels Camp on the world's map, and and since the late 1800s, the town celebrates the famous writer and its very own frog jumping history with an annual Frog Jumping Jubilee. |
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